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  1. Noting the Reserve Bank of Australia is now consistently refering to the #GFC as the #NAFC (North Atlantic Financial Crisis) bit.ly/6jhSqt
  2. Performing a detailed review of Warranty & Maintence offerings from the major storage vendors. Some very interesting outcomes for end-users.
  3. Seriously Re: NetApp & Fujitsu. This announcement makes sense, significant opportunities exist for both companies
  4. NetApp & Fujitsu expand their partnership (deeper, wider, tighter, longer, better) - 10 years and still going strong http://bit.ly/3vhJdZ
  5. Fujitsu launches ETERNUS DX400 & DX8000 products.http://bit.ly/32siXD Completes range
  6. Analysing recent EMEA & US street pricing research for Enterprise Storage products. Some similarities but also some significant differences
  7. Calling enterprise storage purchasers: What forms of street-pricing/discounting info do you find most valuable to you when you are buying ?
  8. Realizing how refreshing it is to have a briefing with real facts rather than the ambiguous waffle that many vendors resort to nowadays
  9. Finalizing my notes from an excellent product update this week from Kris Bakke Storage guru at Sun.
  10. Observing interesting outcomes from our recent research into pan-european street pricing.
  11. In "other" news: Preliminary HP 4Q revenues down 8% YoY, but EPS up. HP expecting next year's 2010 revenues to be essentially flat with 2009
  12. Continuing to see vendors build out their porfolio's, seemingly with focus on one-stop shop delivery of Managed Service / Cloud
  13. HP to acquire 3com - Full press release here http://bit.ly/XT2vI
  14. RT @Burgess_Gary: For IT Analyst Relations followers we now have an RSS feed for IDEAS Analysts quoted in news articles at http://ow.ly/yWkK
  15. RT @JosephZhou from IDEAS: Why has #SAS not penetrated the midrange and high-end network #storage array market: http://bit.ly/2IDQWd
  16. RT @Seagate Motorcycle made from hard drive parts. Would the data still stick on the open highway? http://ow.ly/xLEL
  17. Unfortunately 3,000 people at Sun are set to lose their jobs in the next 12 months, costing up to $125M SEC 8-K ===> http://bit.ly/bfwl1
  18. Busy Day: New IBM Products including the DS8700, high density EXP5060, N-Series EXN3000 SAS/SATA expansion, J series switches bit.ly/16PprW
  19. Been a busy benchmark week. SPC-1 Power595 with STEC SSD, SPC-1 & SPC-2 Sun 6180, SPC-1 & SPC-2 IBM DS5020, and SPC-1 XioTech Emprise 5000
  20. IDEAS Research Report Reveals Relevance of New SPC-1/E Benchmarks (published late last night Sydney time) http://bit.ly/1Q3f7j